Gleaners are everywhere sifting through harvested fields and looking through dumpsters to name two gleaning sites. But I had not thought ab...

Last week, we caught 1776 , the musical about the writing of the Cons titu tion . It was f un to watch, hard to be lieve it came out in 197...

The other night, looking for a documentary to watch on Netflix, we came across this one . It sounded like a provocative subject for tod...

Romance.  Ah I know for as many sighs of satisfaction, there are an equal number of groans and bah humbugs. Well I go in spurts for how ...

After reading this blog-- Age and Its Awful Discontents (?) , I was going to write a comment there. My thoughts were so lengthy that I kne...

Because I have HBO, because I am a student of human nature, because I follow politics (which is about human nature), naturally I was going t...

For anyone who hasn't seen it or heard about it, I recommend Ides of March which is now on Netflix. It is a behind the scenes look at...

After watching Lewis and Clark , I was happy the next documentary to arrive from Netflix was Ulysses S. Grant: Warrior/President: American...

Last week we watched the two-part Ken Burns documentary on the journey of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark when they crossed the American...

I wish all the people who talk so loosely of revolution, insurrection or civil war would see the Quebec film, Incendies. I won't say th...

When I have seen a particularly good film, I ask later what made it so exceptional? I mean I watch quite a lot of movies, many of which I e...

Possibly because of all the turmoil we are experiencing in the world, maybe because I can, thanks to Netflix, I have been watching a lot of ...

[Who does she think she is?] is a documentary by the same filmmaker who did 'Born in Brothels.'  The subject here is women artists,...

Through Netflix, we took a chance on a Ron Howard film starring Vince Vaughn called The Dilemma . It's a comedy but one of those ensembl...

When I ordered Rango from Netflix, I had little confidence that I'd like it. It seemed kind of odd, a chameleon as a western hero??? But...

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. Thoma s Merton Last week I had ordered two ...

After having written about psychics and seeing other films about the 'other' side... or not, I found the next title to be intriguing...

Does Elizabeth Taylor's Death Signify the End of Big Roma nce? Beings I was born in 1943, I grew up in the era where there were still mo...